“If we are to classify the work of Gaudefroy by drawing relationships it is of Braque and Picasso that one has to think, but this resemblance is mainly in the form, in the external presentation, if you like, of the painting. In reality his paintings reveal purely his own talent. The earliest works of Gaudefroy are painted in extremely fine tones that contrast totally with those favoured by Braque. With Gaudefroy the object maintains its reality, but this reality never leads to vulgar naturalism. For, however real they are, Gaudefroy’s objects still display an abstract quality in the way they are composed and handled pictorially” (Cahiers d’Art, 1931, no.2.).